Inclusion of explicit measures of geodiversity improve biodiversity models in a boreal landscape

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3487-3506

  Hjort, Jan ^a   Heikkinen, Risto K ^b   Luoto, Miska ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Boreal vegetation zone; Conservation; Generalized additive model; Geodiversity; Plant species richness; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOZONE; GEODIVERSITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VASCULAR PLANT;

FINLAND;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84868576441     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0376-1     Document Type: Article

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